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“Hymn to Proserpine” is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne published in 1866. The poem is addressed to the goddess Proserpina the Roman equivalent of Persephone but laments the rise of Christianity for displacing the pagan goddess and her pantheon.The epigraph at the beginning of the poem is the phrase Vicisti Galilaee Latin for You have conquered O Galilean the apocryphal dying words of the Emperor Julian.